With Brexit transition approaching, we start this issue of Data in the News with the words of Elizabeth Denham of the ICO: “It is perhaps a telling reflection on the past year that the end of the UK’s transition period with the EU has been a secondary concern for many DPOs in 2020. And yet the end of the transition period may bring the most significant change to data protection in the UK since the implementation of the GDPR three years ago. There remains hope that an adequacy

US firms could gain access to Britons’ personal data via trade deal with Japan The personal data of Britons could be handed to US firms via the new trade deal with Japan, campaigners are warning – ripping up existing protections. The agreement is an “existential threat” to privacy, the Open Rights Group has claimed, allowing information to be transferred and kept secret, with no right of access or to delete it. The small print of the deal – which, The Independent revealed, pr